On Sept. 5, the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) issued its final response to the petition filed by the Sierra Club, UNITE HERE, and several other organizations requesting that the agency take action under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regarding nonylphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE), the primary detergent used in the laundry industry, 72 Fed. Reg. 50954. EPA decided to grant only discrete portions of the petition (pertaining to certain testing requests), and denied the majority of what the petitioners were seeking, including the request to test “for health impacts on workers handling the chemicals at industrial laundries” and ...